An AP newswire article by Bruce Myerson, via Yahoo! News, reports that: [snip] By Thursday, nearly 10,000 satellite-based wireless phones had poured into the hurricane zone to coordinate relief efforts by federal disaster personnel and Red Cross workers, said service providers Globalstar LLC and Iridium Satellite LLC. [snip] http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050902/ap_on_hi_te/katrina_telecom - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/